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| 42. | |
| Could you imagine if it was Donald Trump? | |
| Anyway, great to be back. | |
| 155 days since Joe said he would never abandon Americans. | |
| He did in Afghanistan. | |
| Nobody ever talks about it. | |
| We're not going to forget them. | |
| They're our fellow Americans. | |
| They're military family members, they're green card holders, thousands of them, and our Afghan allies that are getting killed and women have lost their rights and have in the Islamic emirates of Afghanistan. | |
| Great to be back, I think. | |
| Probably like most of you, uh, there's probably all of us on some level have dealt with COVID over the last two weeks. | |
| It it kind of dominated a pretty big part of my time off, took away my reflection from God time, which I which I desperately need during the long holiday, but it's my pleasure. | |
| Linda, how many people got in contact with us? | |
| What's that thing, Hannity said talks about again? | |
| The last thing I said, Linda, before I left, what'd I say? | |
| Remember these words, monoclonal antibodies. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| It turned out the last thing you said. | |
| It was. | |
| And now it was weird too, because I thought you were going to say Merry Christmas. | |
| Yeah, you were going to be able to do it. | |
| You were like everyone leading into the monoclonal antibodies. | |
| You would think so. | |
| Um there's I mean, people close to me. | |
| I know so many people that got Omicron. | |
| Now, Joe was on vacation. | |
| What do we experience? | |
| How is it even possible that we did not have anywhere near the number of tests available? | |
| Now I over time I, you know, I'd go to the drugstore, I'd pick up an Abbott test, and I just, you know, I'll just throw it aside. | |
| If somebody I know, you know, thought they might have it, I'd give it to them. | |
| Um, and you know, I was always always had to test myself, et cetera, et cetera. | |
| But anyway, um, they're not available. | |
| And then you, if you wanted, for example, in New York, where they actual estimates, the 20% of the population in New York City actually got Omicron. | |
| I mean, it's mind-numbing. | |
| And then, okay, I told you monoclonal antibodies. | |
| In the beginning, they were saying that Regeneron and Eli Lily's monoclonal antibodies were not as effective against Omicron. | |
| I I got mixed reviews on that. | |
| And then we find out that Glaxo Smith Klein, uh, that they had their own monoclonal antibodies that they, according to reports, did better than the other ones. | |
| Although I know people that got infusions of uh Regeneron that that say that swear it helped them a lot. | |
| Um, anyway, it's called uh it's put out by Glaxo Smith Klein. | |
| It's called I'm sure I'll blow this uh pronunciation, Shirtrovom. | |
| And anyway, the federal government, as of November, started purchasing November 17th all of their supply. | |
| Now, Governor Christy Gnome and Abbott and DeSantis, they they all want why can't we buy it? | |
| And now it's being rationed. | |
| The one time that Joe Biden mentioned monoclonal antibodies was during his vaccine mandate speech, of course, after he'd said that he's not gonna have a vaccine mandate. | |
| And now Biden is even, he actually said, I wish I thought about ordering 500 million at-home tests two months ago. | |
| Oh, we we didn't see this coming, he said. | |
| What do you mean you didn't see it coming? | |
| We just went through the Delta surge. | |
| We knew that there would be another variant that would break through. | |
| Here's what I learned. | |
| Um, and I'm speaking anecdotally. | |
| I know people fully vaccinated that got Omicron. | |
| And I know people fully vaccinated and boostered that got Omicron. | |
| I know people fully vaccinated that had a booster that had a previous infection that also got Omicron. | |
| So nothing was working. | |
| And in the beginning, uh nobody knows in the beginning how bad this is gonna be. | |
| All I know is we started talking about Omicron in like early December. | |
| Nobody knew how lethal it would be. | |
| Turns out, we now know, although Fauci's still not convinced, that it is way more contagious. | |
| I have one doctor tell me it is about as close to airborne. | |
| He didn't say it was airborne, but it's about as close to airborne as it can be, meaning it was that contagious, but it was far less lethal, it turns out for most people. | |
| But again, if you have pre-existing conditions, comorbidities, compromised immune systems, you're in a bit of a bind there. | |
| Now, all throughout the election, Joe Biden said over and over and over again. | |
| The first presidential debate, he said it in October of 2020, October 23rd, 2020, the 24th, 2020, the 27th, 2020, uh, October 29th, October 30th, 2020. | |
| He said it on Twitter. | |
| He said it numerous times on Twitter. | |
| He said that I am going to shut down the virus. | |
| Now, Joe Biden, while I was on vacation, said, look, there is no federal solution. | |
| That gets solved at the state level. | |
| Well, if it's going to get solved at the state level, let the states, because you started rationing monoclonal antibodies, regenerant, et cetera. | |
| Uh, once you've discovered them, you know, only what, two months ago. | |
| It's the only one time he's mentioned them. | |
| And, you know, the one-size-fits-all medicine isn't working. | |
| This is a national disgrace. | |
| Running out of tests at this late stage of the pandemic is inexcusable. | |
| You know, running out of the one therapeutic that everybody agreed on. | |
| This wasn't ivermectin, this wasn't HCQ, even though there are studies that showed taken early at mitigated symptoms, HCQ that was. | |
| Let's not read the science on this. | |
| Um, but the one that everybody agreed on were monoclonal antibodies. | |
| And anecdotally, when people would ask me in my life that I knew, I'd say the same thing that I told all of you, which is okay, you you gotta first take it seriously. | |
| I've seen the worst of it. | |
| You know my speech. | |
| I'd say you got to look at your own underlying health conditions, your medical history, your current medical condition. | |
| Uh you've got to do your own research, and I'm not talking about putting on a white lab coat and open up a virology lab, and then you need to talk to your doctor to your doctors and make your decision. | |
| I think the debate over vaccinations are over. | |
| I think at this point, now if you had the vaccine, you're fully vaccinated, you even had the booster, and you even had previous infections, and Omicron got through, that means the only thing we need to really be focused on if we're going to do science here would be therapeutics. | |
| And I'm telling people that I love. | |
| Now, I don't know. | |
| I talked to Dr. Oz, I've talked to other medical doctors that I know, and all of them speak very highly of the antivirals put out, I think, by Pfizer. | |
| I know Pfizer, and I think the other one's Merck, and they're very effective, but the availability is almost non existent in some areas. | |
| Just like, you know, why didn't Joe Biden operation warp speed testing kits so every American get can get a test whenever they want one? | |
| That would have helped over the holidays. | |
| Why didn't he warp speed monoclonal antibodies? | |
| He's only mentioned them once. | |
| You know, why isn't he warped speeding these antiviral medicines that are FDA now approved? | |
| I don't know anything about them, but the doctors I've talked to, they seem positive about it, but ask your own doctor. | |
| You know, and then over vacation, then I hear these words. | |
| There's no federal solution. | |
| This is from the guy that kept saying, I'm gonna shut down this virus. | |
| Listen. | |
| The administration's failure on testing is colossal. | |
| And it's a failure of planning, leadership, and execution. | |
| We will deal honestly with the American people. | |
| And we'll never ever, ever quit. | |
| That's how we shut down this virus. | |
| Look, there is no federal solution. | |
| This gets solved state level. | |
| I'm gonna shut down the virus. | |
| I'm not gonna shut down the economy. | |
| I'm gonna shut down the virus. | |
| Look, there is no federal solution. | |
| This gets solved at the state level. | |
| We need to scale up testing so anyone who needs one can get a test. | |
| After 10 months of the pandemic, we still don't have enough testing. | |
| It's a travesty. | |
| Look, there is no federal solution. | |
| This gets solved at the state level. | |
| Some state officials are passing laws or signing orders that forbid people from doing the right thing. | |
| But you aren't going to help at least get out of the way. | |
| Look, there is no federal solution. | |
| This gets solved at the state level. | |
| I'm never going to raise the white flag to survivor. | |
| We're going to beat this virus, and we're going to get it under control, I promise you. | |
| Look, there is no federal solution. | |
| This gets solved at the state level. | |
| And so folks, I will take care of this. | |
| I will end this. | |
| I will make sure we have a plan. | |
| Look, there is no federal solution. | |
| This gets solved at the state level. | |
| And now we're seeing deaths and Delta come down. | |
| We'll fight the you know, and look, we're gonna fight and beat this new variant as well. | |
| Look, there is no federal solution. | |
| This gets solved at the state level. | |
| I'm gonna shut down the virus. | |
| By the way, did you notice? | |
| Maybe this is somewhat nuanced, but it w it's very noticeable to me. | |
| Uh I'm there's no federal solution. | |
| This gets out of the state level. | |
| You notice even in the last year, because he made these comments in October, November 2020 about I'm gonna shut down the virus. | |
| I hear a decline in his voice. | |
| Now I know you uh it's something to pay attention to. | |
| Because I think this guy, when he didn't know when he was on a call with uh a guy that says, let's go, Brandon, I agree, and he said that. | |
| I'm like, how do you not know what let's go Brandon means? | |
| Just like when he said, Well, if you people that's not true, why you people need to stop asking that question about paying illegal immigrants 450,000 uh for family separation. | |
| And then it turns out it was true. | |
| And then I don't know what's worse, the fact that he didn't know about it, or the fact that then he adopted it and passionately advocated for it afterwards. | |
| But the, you know, I'm gonna shut down no there's there's no federal solution. | |
| Oh, okay, that helps a lot. | |
| You know, that I've got remarks from Joe Biden in July of 2021, July 21st, CNN fake news, presidential town hall. | |
| You're not going to get, you're not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations. | |
| We're not in a position where we think that any virus, including the Delta virus, which is much more transmissible and more deadly in terms of non unvaccinated people. | |
| The vi the the various uh shots that people are getting now cover that. | |
| They're there, you're okay. | |
| You're not gonna you're not gonna get COVID if you have these vaccinations. | |
| Wrong. | |
| You know, and he said it not once, he said it numerous times. | |
| CNBC, October 7, 2021. | |
| Uh, you know, uh if you see care at a health care facility, you should have the certainty that the people providing that care are protected from COVID and cannot spread it to you. | |
| Wrong. | |
| Anthony Fauci. | |
| Well, vaccines prevent getting infected, prevent getting sick, prevent hospitalization, etc. | |
| It doesn't prevent getting infected. | |
| You know, and it's all same comments from the fake news media. | |
| You know, you got the conspiracy theorist of all time, Rachel Manow out there saying, you know, that now we know the vaccines work well enough that the virus stops with every vaccinated person. | |
| Wrong. | |
| A vaccinated person exposed to the virus, the virus does not infect them. | |
| Wrong. | |
| The CDC director, wrong. | |
| They're all wrong. | |
| You know, oh, this is no time for Trump's hysterical xenophobia fear mongering to lead the way instead of science. | |
| Oh, then he institutes his own travel ban? | |
| Really? | |
| Oh. | |
| Tells us we should take. | |
| I'm not taking that vaccine. | |
| Well, things change over time. | |
| It's pretty amazing. | |
| You know, Biden says after 10 months of the pandemic, we still don't have enough testing. | |
| He said this in December of 2020. | |
| Well, December of 2021, we have more dead Americans than 2020, and we didn't have any tests available over Christmas for anybody, and the therapeutics were not being mass-produced. | |
| What part of this does he not get? | |
| You could have learned from Trump operation warp speed for testing kits, operation warp speed for monoclonal antibodies, operation warp speed for these antiviral drugs that so many doctors are praising. | |
| You know, fully vaccinated people can now ditch their masks, he said. | |
| Uh, but of course, forget that. | |
| You know, oops, another mistake. | |
| They've been so wrong so often on so many issues. | |
| You know, now they're trying to get kids vaccinated when the numbers are the equivalent five to eleven of the number of kids that have compromised issues and die from the flu virus every year. | |
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| And you know, the one thing uh it took a while. | |
| I I just don't know what I don't know. | |
| And as I was watching you know, this contagious outbreak of Omicron, like so many of you I'm sure dealt with over the Christmas and New Year's holiday. | |
| Uh by the way, buckle up, it's probably gonna get a lot worse this week and next week, and we don't have enough tests, we don't have enough therapeutics. | |
| You know, I I had just read the Glaxo Smile Smith Klein uh monoclonal antibody called uh Sotrovomob. | |
| Uh is they they scooped up 55,000 doses. | |
| They're finally going to release it. | |
| Why they didn't release it up to this point, nobody can give me a straight answer on. | |
| It makes no sense. | |
| Um, so they're gonna do that. | |
| Joe Biden had a 10-page plan on how to, you know, make sure and ensure that we had enough rapid testing for people at home. | |
| I know people that would literally wait online for stores to open hoping that they got a shipment of at-home tests, and you are only allowed to buy one. | |
| That that's that was the type of shortage that was available. | |
| You know, up until this point, pretty much anybody that got in contact with us, Linda, we would find monoclonal antibodies where they lived. | |
| You know, it was Emory University Hospital in Georgia, uh, we had places out in California, we knew places in Texas, we knew places in Florida, New York, I had a very small list of places, but every time I sent people there, they were able to get their infusion. | |
| And by the way, it's all free of charge, just like the vaccine was free of charge. | |
| Uh I had I don't think we ever failed one time, did we? | |
| And we'd usually get it within 24 hours. | |
| Yeah, we never did because we have awesome friends and they work in the medical field and they're willing to actually, you know, follow their Hippocratic oath and help people. | |
| Listen, so we we now know it's more contagious. | |
| I didn't believe in the beginning that look, it's not, I don't want to say that it is less less lethal to telling us all that, and I believe that part of it. | |
| But with that said, I still don't want people that I care about and and people I love to get this thing. | |
| Um more young people are getting this thing. | |
| This this is what happens when a virus mutates. | |
| We'll talk to our medical professional A team coming up later in the program today. | |
| Uh oh, and New York, uh, get this. | |
| They've just they've adopted now COVID treatment protocols in New York City. | |
| And the rules are pretty simple. | |
| If you're non white, you get to go to the front of the line. | |
| You get tested first, you get treated first. | |
| If you're white, that's too bad. | |
| You go to the end of the line and wait your turn. | |
| Now, meanwhile, they don't have enough tests in New York anyway. | |
| They don't have any therapeutics for the most part in New York, anyway. | |
| But you go to the end of the line. | |
| Now, you know, you would think in this day and age that such things wouldn't happen. | |
| You know, you judge people by the content of their character, not by the color of their skin when it comes to medical care. | |
| You would think that medicine, you know, you treat people because they need to be treated on a first come, first served basis, whatever it happened to be. | |
| New York health officials have been using race to help decide how to allocate precious testing resources according to leaked emails from the agency, the city task force on racial inclusion and equity created by the DePlasio administration. | |
| And by the way, apparently Eric Adams is fine with this. | |
| And I was told by somebody in Eric Adams' camp that I ran into over the holiday just randomly. | |
| Oh no, no, he's nothing like De Blasio. | |
| Well, then why is he taking on these radical positions from the from the get go? | |
| You know, already you've got people referring to him as as de Blasio 2.0. | |
| I hope that's not true, because that's going to be a disaster for New York. | |
| Anyway, the city's task force on racial inclusion and equity created by Comrade de Blasio in 2020 identified 31 underserved neighborhoods to receive priority attention from the city. | |
| Now remember, New York has a vaccine mandate requirement. | |
| And they had a very particularly low rate among minorities in New York in terms of getting the vaccination, but that meant that that minorities disproportionately were being shut out from services in restaurants and any indoor facility. | |
| I mean, it's just i insane. | |
| You know, Staten Island, by the way, happens to be mostly white Americans, middle class, South Shore, and they have one of the highest COVID rates in the city they had during December. | |
| It's it's it's not one of the priority neighborhoods. | |
| Why you go where the people are sick. | |
| That would be basic common sense. | |
| Anyway, the borough has 13 testing sites, all the more, you know, and the health department representative claim the minority communities had quote, born the brunt of the pandemic due to structural racism. | |
| By the way, that's in New York City, you can go anywhere. | |
| They even have on street corners they had testing available up until Omicron. | |
| I mean, it's unbelievable. | |
| You know, if you look at what they were telling you, you know, Joe Biden said in July of 2021, that's last year. | |
| You're not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations. | |
| And he said it again in October of 2021. | |
| He says, We're making sure healthcare works workers are vaccinated because if you seek care at a healthcare facility, you should have the certainty that people providing that care are protected from COVID and cannot spread it to you. | |
| Well, I'm sorry, but I now know people fully vaccinated that still got Omicron. | |
| People fully vaccinated with booster shots that still got Omicron. | |
| People fully vaccinated with boosters and a previous infection, they got it for a second time. | |
| So much for the science of Joe Biden. | |
| Because they were wrong then, they're wrong now. | |
| You know, this is the same guy in October of 2020. | |
| We're eight months into the pandemic, and Donald Trump still doesn't have a plan to get this virus under control. | |
| I do. | |
| Well, now the same guy is out there saying that there's no federal solution. | |
| Because that's what he said all throughout the campaign. | |
| I will shut this virus down. | |
| I will shut down this virus. | |
| I will shut down this virus. | |
| What do you see our montage later tonight? | |
| I think, you know, it's very, very telling. | |
| You know, just like now he's in favor of xenophobic and hysterical and fear mongering travel bans. | |
| You know, just he's just like he's saying, oh, 220,000 Americans dead. | |
| If you hear nothing else I say tonight, hear this. | |
| Anyone responsible for that many deaths should not remain as president of the United States. | |
| We have more dead in 2021 than 2020. | |
| You know, Kamala Harris, November 2nd, the day before the election, 2020. | |
| First thing Joe and I will do in the White House is get this virus under control. | |
| I guess that didn't work out well for them. | |
| Biden, I don't think it should be mandatory. | |
| I wouldn't demand a vaccine be mandatory. | |
| After 10 months of the pandemic, we still don't have enough testing. | |
| He said on December 29th, 2020. | |
| That's a travesty. | |
| We need to scale up testing. | |
| So anyone that needs one can get one. | |
| Well, if you need a test now, good luck finding one. | |
| If you find it, please let me know where. | |
| Call and tell me where you got it. | |
| Because I know people that can't get it. | |
| Fully vaccinated people, he said last year could now ditch their masks. | |
| Whoops, so much for that one. | |
| I mean, pretty much everything that they said turned out to be wrong. | |
| Talk about mixed messaging. | |
| You talk about vaccine hesitancy. | |
| Well, who created it? | |
| Who's been wrong the entire time? | |
| I'm not, and I'm not even getting into Fauci and Walensky, because they're worse than everybody. | |
| You know, then now Biden is saying, you know, just leading into Christmas, where your mask when you're indoors in public settings and around other people. | |
| I'm told people, you know, fully vaccinated, boostered, wearing masks everywhere they go, still got this thing. | |
| You know, seeing how tough it was for some folks to get a test this weekend shows that we have more work to do. | |
| He said that December 27th this year. | |
| Uh why did you turn down the plan ahead of time that was given to you by your own health department and your own health officials to buy the testing so that every American can get tested at home? | |
| I mean, all of this, it just you just can't believe it's gonna get that bad, and it does, it gets worse. | |
| You know, where's the science behind COVID in kids age five to eleven? | |
| There's been 2,574,000 kids in this range that have gotten COVID. | |
| Linda, you told me the CDC's updated number on kids 5 to 11 that die from COVID. | |
| What's the latest? | |
| Last time it was uh 0.08%. | |
| What is it now? | |
| So the overall CDC deaths now for COVID children and adults based upon the delta variant, omicrime, and COVID-19 is 0.005%. | |
| That's CDC data. | |
| Mm-hmm. | |
| Okay, and that's the most up-to-date data. | |
| We lost about 220, if I'm not mistaken. | |
| I actually have the number here in front of me somewhere. | |
| The number of deaths in that age group, 221 over the course of two years now. | |
| Right. | |
| So we have an unproven vaccination for children between the ages of five and twelve. | |
| Now they're saying children over twelve can get it. | |
| They want kids on to 12 to get it in certain cities and states. | |
| For kids 12 to 15, we've had 246 deaths. | |
| 5 to 11, 221 deaths. | |
| And by the way, a lot of those kids have had other medical conditions as well. | |
| Now, if you look at people 85 and older, it's 194,000. | |
| If you're 75 to 84, it's 181,000. | |
| 65 to 74, 100 and nearly 153,000. | |
| 50 to 64, 120,000. | |
| So, you know, this was. | |
| And how many of them died from the flu? | |
| Yeah, it's about the same percentage, which is which has been my point, right? | |
| Exactly. | |
| Um, you know, Harry Reid died, and I I never speak ill of the dead. | |
| I just, you know, I never particularly liked him. | |
| I'm not gonna sit here and lie. | |
| Um, but I I felt that I just never had a good thought about him. | |
| I'm my prayers for his family, they don't want to lose a loved one. | |
| And uh, but I I made me think of something. | |
| Linda, you may think this is bizarre. | |
| And I did some research over the holiday. | |
| Now, by law, senators, I kept thinking, Senators live a long time. | |
| They all live a long time. | |
| Why do they live a long time? | |
| And I wanted to know, because remember, there was a lot of pressure that they had to get their insurance through Obamacare, right? | |
| Unless they had had the health care plan of a spouse, right? | |
| His or her spouse. | |
| Now, senators, now they have access to what's called the office of the attending physician in Congress when they're in Washington, D.C., which by the way, I'm not necessarily against. | |
| That sounds an awful like like concierge medicine to me, which I'm not against either. | |
| Just like we have Dr. Josh Humber on the program and what's his name? | |
| Atlas MD in Wichita, Kansas, and he's a great guy, and he's been able to duplicate concierge service. | |
| 50 bucks a month for an adult, 10 bucks a month per child, and he buys bulk prescriptions, and you leave the doctor's office with the medicine that you need. | |
| It's an amazing, amazing plan that he's done to lower costs for people and still get concierge care, and you have access to a doctor 24 7. | |
| So senators have access to these attending physician in Congress when they're in DC. | |
| The and this I wonder what's the average age of death, let's say for the last 20 senators. | |
| What do you think it was, Linda? | |
| I have no idea. | |
| I don't know, 120. | |
| People live forever. | |
| That's funny. | |
| All right, 85 years and 11 months. | |
| What's the life expectancy for all Americans? | |
| Do you know? | |
| According to the CDC. | |
| I don't. | |
| 78.8 years. | |
| Really? | |
| So they still get their insurance through Obamacare unless they have a spouse that has a plan. | |
| But they get the office of attending physician. | |
| You know what that's called? | |
| Concierge care. | |
| That's what that's what Atlas MD is all about. | |
| That's what Dr. That's what our friend Dr. Josh Umber's all about. | |
| Uh all right. | |
| I told you about New York City and race. | |
| Uh, what else do we have news here? | |
| Oh, how many did you see AOC was filmed at a maskless packed Florida bar, and then accusing, you know, attacking the governor, who apparently was with his wife who was receiving cancer treatment for breast cancer. | |
| Uh, unlike Democrats, I actually, even though we disagree, I hope Congresswoman Presley, she tested positive, does okay. | |
| Um, you know, one thing that this DeSantis said, yeah, I was with my wife getting cancer treatment, but it is interesting that all of these uh politicians come down here and they go massless and they like to see how the real world lives. | |
| And all of this, by the way, cloth masks they may not protect against Omicron. | |
| I don't know if you saw that in the Wall Street Journal. | |
| They had that report. | |
| The federal government allocated $73 billion for COVID testing. | |
| Where are the tests? | |
| How did Joe Biden criticize Donald Trump when he's running for office and now we ran out of tests? | |
| You couldn't get one. | |
| By the way, do you know anyone that tried to get a test over the holiday, Linda? | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And anybody able successful? | |
| Because I couldn't find one. | |
| No, but they have the it's weird. | |
| They have some new ones now that aren't the uh Abbott ones in the stores, and there's some alternatives. | |
| Everybody I know couldn't find them. | |
| Now, some people found them online and bought them that way, and somebody found a link and sent it to me, and I got them, but I'm not getting them for myself. | |
| I'm getting them so I can give it out to people if they they think they need it. | |
| Um just right, I will tell you this. | |
| If what happened in South Africa and Great Britain happened here, this should probably peak in the next four to five weeks. | |
| And I predicted this with Delta as well. | |
| And by the way, COVID outbreak among fully vaccinated crews ends a New Year's Eve trip in Portugal. | |
| Fully, fully everyone was vaccinated on the on the boat. | |
| Didn't work. | |
| The defense secretary Lloyd Austin has tested positive. | |
| We wish him the best too. | |
| But anyway, um, what was I gonna say? | |
| I forgot. | |
| AOC film maskless at a packed bar in Florida. | |
| You just you can't make this up. | |
| Unbelievable. | |
| Rhode Island went from firing unvaccinated health care workers to allowing COVID positive people to work. | |
| This variant that is scary is filling up children's hospitals. | |
| Texas has run out of monoclonal antibodies. | |
| There's no excuse for that, just like running out of tests. | |
| New York's daily COVID positivity rate now is almost 20%. | |
| I mean, that you can't make that up either. | |
| Anyway, 800-941 Shauna's our number. | |
| We got a we'll get back to this in our final hour today. | |
| John Solomon has an update on Durham and some other issues. | |
| All right, a lot coming up. | |
| Uh there might be a fraud election story breaking. | |
| We'll check in with John Salomo. | |
| We'll update you on John Durham and much more straight ahead. | |
| Thank you. | |
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